Hi guys how would you work out prices for carbon skinning parts? I charge £150 for doing a mini boot lid last week,  messaged a company for a price out of intrest and they were £350 :O

In simple terms, material costs plus labour plus overheads plus profit margin.

£150 sounds very cheap.

Ultimately if depends if you are doing it as a hobby to help a few petrol head out and just expecting a few beer tokens in return for your time, or are you doing it as a business??

If the later then you will need to value your time completely differently than just doing it as a hobby, and thats where the cost comes from with skinning.  £50 an hour would not be unheard of for a business with premises and overheads to be charging for composite work such as this.

Warren Penalver
Easy Composites / Carbon Mods - Technical Support Assistant

I work on the basis of "Materials + hours"

I tell my potential customers that high quality skinning is labour-intensive, lots of sanding and polishing to get a good result.

Usually they go away and try to do the job themselves, and I never see them again

I can not seem to make a profit from skinning, so only do it for fun projects ..

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Yeah it's hard to price things,  I do it from home so no outlays other than the materials